Abah you’re making me bezonkers!
Kids are full of surprises -never failed to amaze me on how fast they learn things or even how fast they pick up new lines .
On a recent regular drive from the Jumaat prayer at the mosque nearby – heading home, I asked Imran whether he knows the way back to our home Cordoba .Should I turn left or right ?
Obviously he was not interested to talk about it, (his mind was more focused to the ice-cream I promised to buy for him at the compound supermaket) so I said it was just a simple test for him and as it will be part of learning process. ‘No abah, I don’t like test, test is only for school!’ argued him. And I said ‘Imran .. you should always learn anywhere you go – remember bla bla bla .. when you’re small bla bla .. its part of learning’ .‘Learning is not only for school OK..’
And he goes –"Abah, you’re making me bezonkers!"
What was that ? Bezonkers?
Where did he learn those "bezonkers" word? I can’t recall anytime that me or ummi using it, indeed it was not part of my (limited) vocabulary. Did he become smarter than I am ? Naaaa..! Though I knew he is definitely smarter than me at his age now. (I cheated during a spelling test at Standard 1 because I just couldn’t spell "FISH"! )
So for the x times of the week, I asked my Imran – "Where did you pick up those words?"
From school? As usual he said , from "this" cartoon he watched at "this" TV channel.
Media such TV, internet has big influence to their audience. Check this .
It can also be used as a useful learning tool .
* Human can invent a chess playing computer like Deep Blue who can beat Kasparov but still failed to beat the intelligence of a 4 year kids in recognizing images or even understanding language.
Do read this interesting article about Jeff Hawkins AI project .
Read MoreWatching the kids
Last night was one of the moments to be remembered for Alysha.
The whole family was so excited watching her rolling over the body on the bed. The brother Uje and sister Sabrina were too clapping and shouting – calling her name, even Pah was also there to see she’s doing her thing. It was not the first time (perhaps the first 10!) but the excitement was uncontrollable? among us.
These were those special moments of being parents-happy moments to be treasured for life 
Its very interesting to see the kids growing up, the first word, the first walk also when we found out some striking similarities the way they look like, the way they talk, the food they like – in short our characteristics that were passed on to them.
Our son Ammar is 6 now. We have seen a lot of progress on him recently since he started going to the special school in USJ this year. He looked more mature now (never cried indeed was always excited in the morning when we send him to USJ), and recently had this new passion to write/colour books. He would pull our hands to help him write along the dotted lines of his ABC books and later colour them. His favourite colour were always orange, blue and dark blue- carried 3 of the colour pencil whenever he found them. I still remember, when we first saw Ammar smiled when he was a baby—I was so excited! Why? Friends of mine alway make fun of my “senyum senget” one of them called it “asymmetrical smile” especially infront of the camera. So the moment I saw the smile, I told Ummi .. See! I told you it was genetic!
Uje – he can actually write his name “Imran Uzair” now. When we first enrolled him at CEC early this year, he couldn’t even hold the pencil properly and what worried us most he looked not interested in writing etc compared to the cousins. Two weeks ago, the teacher called Ummi told her that Imran cried in class that day because he couldn’t answer questions on some numbers in the Maths class.( I bought him some Maths book right after that at Borders) Later we found out that he could actually recognized numbers in sequence but he would be confused (with number 6,8 and 9 ) if they were randomly ordered. Before that, his teacher told us Uje were doing OK in class, his Chinese pronounciation was good, a very curious boy (that really made me happy!) and talkative too but also a day dreamer! He always dreaming in class (the teacher even immitated his “dreaming look”) however when the teacher asked question about what being taught he could answer it well – isn’t that sounds more like a compliment?
Daydreaming—hmm! Straight away I admitted to the teacher that it was genetic! His father is indeed one of them – Ummi often complained that I always got lost in conversations, my friends said so (during a dinner many years ago when I told them about my son and his own world!) . We couldn’t help it, our kind of people always have this daemons (don’t be confused with demons!) or unwanted zombie running at the back of our head making us lost senses on the surrounding
Next is Sabrina our very own “Power Puff Girl”. She’s really a tough outgoing girl perhaps like her mom- never gave up on anything and always fight back if were teased by his brother Uje. Scared of “ulat”- paranoid of it (also like the mother!) she cried recently while watching Twister ( I bought a book on Weather and showed Uje about Tornado so we went on to watch Twister on DVD after that) perhaps terrified by the scene of a man swallowed by the tornado! I was surprised to see she’s crying maybe she was so sad watching the character (Helen Hunt as a kid) crying losing her father in the tornado in that movie.
By the way, Sabrina is only 2 and she is now toilet trained – always shout “Tak payahhh!!” when I teased her to wear diapers.
Introducing Alysha Sufiyya
It has been a very hectic 48hours for me and yet another sleepless night.
Hari Khamis petang received a phone call from customer-Server failed to boot up normally after reboot. It was 4pm and spoiled my mood that day. Dipendekkan cerita I didn’t sleep that night, went back home at 4.00am for sahur and got back to customer’s place at 9.00am. So it was a short 3 hours nap.
Later that day, problem was resolved at 5pm, terus told the customer’s I need to go home urgently.. malam ni nak dapat baby!
On the way back sempat la beli Burger King for buka with Ummi at home that day.
At 8.00pm 28th October bertolak dari Nusa Subang pi hospital, silap calculation ingatnya nak avoid jam jalan MRR2 Sg. Buloh so lalu lah NKVE. Rupanya sangkut kat Jalan Duta! Aiseh forgot la.. “balik kampung” day was going on at Stesen Jalan Duta! Made a U turn and masuk Jalan Tunku via Kedutaan India.
Arrived at Naluri around 10.00pm. Ummi was OK takde la ada urgency to “beranak”.
“Tak payahlah beranak today”. Besok jek la.. jom kita pi makan kat NZ Wangsa Maju. She agreed. But the moment the nurse put on the CTG.. thing changes.
http://www.vhi.ie/topic/pregnancy/glossary.jsp#c
Cardiotocograph/CTG
A machine used to monitor the baby’s heartbeat in pregnancy or labour, and measuring the strength of contractions. Sometimes known as a ‘monitor’ or ‘trace’ .
So that night, mentally unprepared I have to go through “yet another father to be” drama.
The baby was born at 1.17am 29th October 2005.Still un-named she weight 3.05kg ~ like her brothers and sisters.
Alhamdulillah!
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